Reflection

Final Reflection 

During the class “Lectures and Videos” I learned a lot of things, now I can read some lectures and watch some videos and don’t see just the cover of the information that the text or that the video shows me, now I can develop and analyze further the information. Also I liked some of the stories that we read during the class. The class also teaches me a lot of vocabulary new that is going to help me in future occasions. 

Final Oral Presentation

Final Oral Presentation

"The Fiddler on the Roof"

Signs

Signs

In the movie “Signs” you can see a lot of themes that occurs. One That I liked the most is the loss of faith. During the movie, the principal characters and also all the people in the world are scared during the whole movie, this happens because some aliens arrived to the earth. The scenes don’t show you a lot about the aliens and what they wanted to do. The main scene occurs in the house of Graham who is a priest whose wife just died in a traffic accident. Because of that tragedy the priest is almost losing his faith.

During the movie, the family is steel believing in their beliefs and they keep trying to live, never giving up. Perhaps there is a lot of fear to the unknown but in the normal life, people always are looking for something to believe, or something to live for, and that’s where our spirituality comes. In the life, there are always ups and down that probably are going to change everything you have believed.  But you need to stay strong at your beliefs, because that is the only individual and private thing you probably are going to have and that no one can take away from you so easily. During the movie the priest loses his beliefs, and in the last dinner they have, he didn’t want to say any prayer because the only things he wants to do in that moment was enjoy his meal. He only wanted to enjoy some earthly pleasure, and take away his beliefs.

Personally I like that people stay focused and strong to their beliefs, which means it is a loyal and sincere person. This movie shows us how in some extreme times, you need to stay strong in what you think, because these are the things that make you who you really are.

2nd. partial oral presentation video

2nd. partial oral presentation video

"The Magic Barrel"

Writing Contest

Writing Contest

The Man of Central Park

There he was, sitting at a bench in the middle of central park. Sara who was looking at him, just discovered who probably this will be the day that separated everything in her life, the after and before of this event.  After a while she started to remember her life and what had happened to her in love. She didn't want to suffer any more for a guy that only wants to play with her, she actually needs to feel the real love, without suffering the pain of betrayal that is so hard and dark. Suddenly, the handsome man just stands up from the bench and start walking through the hall, the woman starts to follow him for many minutes when he suddenly stop and meets with another girl. Sara starts to remember the loneliness that she was suffering days before, and then, she decided to leave the place and go home.

When she was at her house, she starts to cry and starts to remember the lonely days that have happened before. Then, she falls asleep. During the night the rain was really strong and Sara was dreaming so deeply that she actually seems to be calm.

The next day a man rang the bell during the morning. Sara gets really surprised by the aspect of the man; he was the man of Central Park. “What are you doing here” - Sara, asks surprised. “I was looking for you, yesterday you left your bag in Central Park, I was there with my sister when I saw the bag and I found some information that brings me here today”. 

Oral Presentation

Movie: "Schindler's List"

Two Kinds

“Two Kinds”

In the story of Amy Tan “Two Kinds”, we can see a struggle of a teenager with his mother, who always tries to do the best with his daughter. Jing-mei, who is the daughter of the story, reveals bad behaviors that probably are normal for a child of that age. In the story, some acts affect their behavior and their relationship.

The mother of the story always shares a fight with Jing-mei, trying to push her daughter in some activities that maybe his daughter didn’t like. But also Jing-mei sometimes defies her mother trying to bother her with her attitude. At the end of the story we realize that both of them look at the past, thinking that maybe they could do better. So, after all, Jing-mei was destined to be like her mother, a failure.

In the story maybe a lot of people can get identified, with the teenager who is a rebel child, and who tries to always contradict the decisions of their parents. But also we can get identified after some years, that some of those decisions that parents take for us, is because they are trying to do their best job as parents.

The Good Lie

The Good Lie

 “The Good lie”, is a drama film where 3 people of Sudan who have suffered a lot, take the opportunity to move to the United States where they have to work and study. The movie gives you many teachings about the life, and with this movie you can analyze some situation that are happening around the world and you can realize how much impact it has in the life of some people. At the beginning of the movie is showed how much these people suffer, almost all their friends and brothers were killed by an army who was trying to take some people as soldiers. Nevertheless these 3 people never give up; especially Memere who wants to be a doctor, even if he needs to work more to pay the med school.  At the end of the movie there is another emotional event, where Memere and his sister discover that their brother is alive. Memer returns to Sudan to find some papers for his brother so he can go to the United States with them. After he tries to find some papers, he realize that he is not going to find it, so he gives to his brother his own papers so he can go to United States and live there giving him a chance of another life, just like he did in the past with them. That action of sacrifice is really important of the movie because it shows how Memere was able to have everything, change it so his brother can live something that he had already experienced.

Sunday in the Park

“The irony of Sunday in the Park”

In the story of Bel Kaufman “Sunday in the Park”, the irony is an element that always stays present in the whole story. The story takes part in a park where a family argues with a big man. The wife, who thinks that his husband is going to solve any problem, realizes that he can´t stands for his family because of a conflict with a big man in the park. Sunday in the park started with a plot in a sandbox where a fat kid who is son of the big man started throwing sand to the other kid, who is son of the couple. The mother is thinking that his son needs to solve his own problems but anyways she takes control of the situation and starts to argue with the big man. Next the big man start to argue with the husband, and the wife thinks that the situation is not a big problem and she doesn't need to think a lot about it but she actually does and she gives a lot of importance. After the husband leaves the place with his family, he try to explain why he didn't do anything with the big man and he try to make some excuses about the situation, but anyways the wife knows that he is a tiny man against a big man and he would not do anything to stop the child. At the end of the story the father says that his wife needs to educate his son or he will do it and she replies at the same way as the big man in the park, “You and who else”. Therefore the irony makes us understand a lot of the plot that occurs in the story, without it, the story will not give us some information to understand some events that occur and some actions that the characters take.